United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from an award of attorney's fees in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act action following judgment for Defendants, the award is reversed where attorney's fees and costs may not be awarded against a plaintiff's attorney under 15 U.S.C. section 1692k(a)(3).

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/23/2008
• Decided 06/09/2009
• Published 06/09/2009

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  W. FLETCHER and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alison Buchanan, Hodge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, San Jose, CA, Robert L. Hyde, Joshua B. Swigart, Hyde & Swigart, San Diego, CA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen H. Turner, Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, Los Angeles, CA, Tomio Buck Narita, Jeffrey A. Topor, Simmonds & Narita, San Francisco, CA, for the appellee.